60. #þus ne dest#, i.e. hidest not thyself from men’s gaze. 61. #þer . . . of#, thereby, by reason of that, see 1/3 note: so ‘hwarof,’ whereby AR 58/22. 63. #þah#, if. Comp. ‘Ȝif we weopeð for ure owune [sunnen] hit is nout muchel wunder,’ AR 312/23. ‘ki qe vult estre veue mes qele satife nest pas g{ra}nt m{er}ueille,’ F. 64. #untiffet wið uten#: comp. 1 Pet. iii. 3, 4. 65. #broche#: ‘fermail,’ F; ‘firmaculos,’ L (should be firmacula). #imembret#, striped, parti-coloured: comp. ‘Singuli Fratres singulas zonas tantum habeant, sintque zonae eorum simplicis corrigiae, sine fibulis & absque omni tinctura,’ Statuta Ord. Grandimont., Holst. ii. 303. #glouen#: comp. ‘Ut nunquam induant gantos,’ Regulae Sanctimonialium Fontis Ebraldi, Migne, P. L. clxii. 1097. 57 C-61. See 66/114-19. The scribe of C copied this passage by inadvertence at the bottom of f. 193 _r_ instead of f. 194 _r_. 66. #ow ne deh#, it is not proper for you. #meoke#, soft and pliant, not like the heavy sheepskin winter garments. See 62/38 note. 67. #greattre#, coarser and larger pieces of work, not fancy trifles. 68. #forte--wið#, with which to get yourselves friends. ‘nec eorum (i.e. friends) munuscula litterasque suscipias, nec illis tua dirigas, prout moris est, puta zonas, marsupia, quae diverso stamine & subtegmine variata sunt,’ Ailred, 642 e. In the Gilbertine Rule the nuns are forbidden to make purses embroidered with silk, p. *xciv. 69. #huue#, coif, skull-cap: OE. #hūfe#; Germ. haube. #blodbinde#, ligatures of silk to stop bleeding: ‘tenas,’ L (a LL. form = taenias). #laz#, not ‘lace’ Morris, but laces, i.e. strings for lacing garments: ‘laqueos de serico,’ L. 70. #chirche claðes#: ‘les vestementȝ de seint iglise,’ F. 72. #fore#, beforehand: OE. #fore#: without telling him about it beforehand, as well as the circumstances, your relationship to the persons, how often you receive them, how long you entertain them. 73. #tendre of cunne#, affectionate towards kindred. The story which follows is in Eudes de Cheriton (ed. Hervieux, 270) and in Jacques de Vitry (ed. Crane, 54). Both were active in the first quarter of the thirteenth century. Eudes may have found the story (which is, in any case, an interpolation) in AR, he quotes, p. 195, a variant of the proverb found in AR 96/24, ‘euer is þe eie to þe wude leie,’ and applies it correctly. 74. #⁊--him#, to whom came. 75. #efter#: see 7/53. 76. #dead biburiet#: probably and has fallen out between these words. 77. #dead gasteliche#: ‘mortuus sum in claustro sepultus,’ Eudes, 271; ‘Quanti monachorum dum patris matrisque miserentur, suas animas perdiderunt,’ S. Jerome, ii. 577.